Spring 2008 Feaver-MacMinn Seminar: The Ethical Challenges of Leadership

February 27 through March 2, 2008

Joanne Ciulla, Ph.D.
Coston Family Chair in Leadership and Ethics
University of Richmond

Host Professor
John Duncan, Ph.D.
College of Liberal Studies
The University of Oklahoma

To Apply:

2008 FM Applicationpdf

2008 FM Applicationword

For more information, contact John Duncan at the College of Liberal Studies, jduncan@ou.edu or 405-325-1061.

Celebrating 23 Years of Academic Excellence

2007 Charles A. Kimball, Th.D.
Professor of Religion in the Department of Religion and Professor of Comparative Religion in the Divinity School at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, NC.
“Conceptions of the Afterlife”

2006 Leonard Shlain
University of California - San Francisco
“The Alphabet Versus the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image”

2005 James Davidson Hunter
University of Virginia
“American as Civilization”

2004 Philip Chase Bobbitt
University of Texas School of Law
“America in the 21st Century: A New Imperium?”

2002 Steven Roberts
George Washington University
“The Press and American Political Campaigns”

2002 Dan W. Brock
Brown University
“Genetics and Justice”

2001 Leroy Quintana
San Diego Mesa College
“Changing Cultures, Values, and Identities”

2000 Edward T. Linenthal
University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh
“Violence in the American Landscape: Memory and Memorials in American Culture”

1998 Denise Chavez
New Mexico State University
“The Power and Nature of Voice in Contemporary Chicana Literature”

1998 E. Ann Kaplan
State University of New York - Stony Brook
“Looking for the Other: Women, Diaspora, and Cinema”

1997 Rudolfo Anaya
University of New Mexico
“A Journey of Knowledge: Curanderismo”

1996 Alan Trachtenberg
Yale University
“National Identity in the United States”

1995 Martin Marty
University of Chicago
“Politics and Religion: Global, National, and Local Instances”

1993 James Barr
Vanderbilt University
“Fundamentalism: A Challenge to the Modern World”

1992 Stanley I. Kutler
University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Long Shadows: Vietnam and Watergate”

1991 Mark Crispin Miller
Johns Hopkins University
“Information in a Democratic Society: Manipulation of the 1988 and 1992 Presidential Elections”

1990 Thomas Pangle
University of Toronto
“The Philosophic Origins and Foundations of the Bill of Rights”

1989 Gayatri C. Spivak
University of Pittsburgh
“Cultural Studies and Colonialism in the American Academy”

1988 Cornell West
Princeton University
“Race and Racism in Contemporary America”

1987 Marjorie Perloff
Stanford University
“Avant-Garde Today: Cutting Edge of Marginality”

1986 Rosemary Ruether
Garrett Theological Seminary
“Family and Gender: Changing Paradigm of Relationship in Western History”

1985 Joseph Weizenbaum
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Artificial Intelligence: Its Value and Humanistic Implications”

1984 David Halberstam
Journalist, Author, Historian
“Politics and Morality”

 

From the students. . .

“I will take from this seminar a new lens through which to view the world.”

“. . . creating a dialogue to begin change.”

“. . . invigorating . . . informative . . . a forum free of condemnation.”

“Free flow of dialogue and ideas”

“. . . intellectually stimulating.”

“This has been the most worthwhile educational experience in my three years at OU.”

From a visiting scholar . . .

“This was truly one of the most important and profound teaching experiences that I have had.”
Denise Chavez

From a host professor . . .

“Simply put – students loved this class and . . . benefited from it immensely.”
Robert Con Davis-Undiano